{"id":3910,"date":"2025-08-26T01:32:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T01:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=3910"},"modified":"2025-08-26T01:32:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T01:32:55","slug":"book-of-the-month-september-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=3910","title":{"rendered":"Book of the Month September 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quizlit\u2019s Book of the Month September 2025 is the dazzling Endling by Maria Reva<\/a>. This darkly comic novel explores survival, love, and hope in times of encroaching darkness. Longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Book of the Month September 2025<\/h2>\n

Endling by Maria Reva<\/h2>\n
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Ukraine, 2022. Yeva is a maverick scientist who scours the country\u2019s forests and valleys, trying and failing to breed rare snails while her relatives urge her to settle down and start a family of her own. What they don\u2019t know: Yeva already dates plenty of men-not for love, but to fund her work-entertaining Westerners who come to Ukraine on guided romance tours believing they\u2019ll find docile brides untainted by feminism.<\/p>\n

Nastia and her sister, Solomiya, are also entangled in the booming marriage industry, posing as a hopeful bride and her translator while secretly searching for their missing mother, who vanished after years of fierce activism against the romance tours.<\/p>\n

So begins a journey of a lifetime across a country on the brink of war: three angry women, a truckful of kidnapped bachelors, and Lefty, a last-of-his-kind snail with one final shot at perpetuating his species.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaria Reva has made a fantastic novel. It\u2019s about so much and yet is laser focused. A scientist who funds her research with sex work, a wild and, at the same time, sensible and normal move. This novel turns corners and tables. I love works that are smarter than I am, and this is one.\u201d
\u2013 Percival Everett<\/a>, author of National Book Award winner\u00a0James<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cBrilliant and heart-stopping\u2026Maria Reva creates beautiful, purposeful chaos\u2026.Endling\u00a0<\/em>is a forceful mashup of storytelling modes that call attention to its interplay of reality and fiction \u2014 a Ukrainian tragicomedy of errors colliding with social commentary about the Russian invasion.\u201d
\u2013\u00a0Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cRemarkable\u2026.Reva tests the boundaries of storytelling with freshness and humor.\u201d
\u2013\u00a0The Washington Post<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThis work on feminist outrage, environmental destruction, and the inhumanity of war is not didactic; instead, it is a page-turning, genre-bending meta-novel as entertaining as it is gut-wrenching, whose experiments with literary form will keep readers on their toes.\u201d
\u2013 Library Journal<\/em>\u00a0(starred review)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cFull of suspense and humor, while never letting go of what is really happening in the lives of Ukrainian people at home and abroad\u2026A noteworthy literary achievement and also a good story, sure to be widely discussed and enjoyed.\u201d
\u2013\u00a0Kirkus<\/em>\u00a0(starred review)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAstonishing\u2026 this inspired and urgent novel is bound to make a major splash.\u201d
\u2013\u00a0Publisher\u2019s Weekly<\/em>\u00a0(starred review)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Also by Maria Reva<\/h2>\n
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A cast of unforgettable characters\u2013citizens of the small industrial town of Kirovka\u2013populate Maria Reva\u2019s ingeniously entwined tales that span the chaotic years leading up to and immediately following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989. Weaving the strands of the narrative together is an unforgettable, chameleon-like young woman named Zaya: an orphan turned beauty-pageant crasher who survives the extraordinary circumstances of her childhood through a compelling combination of ferocity, intelligence, stubbornness and wit.<\/p>\n

Inspired by her own family\u2019s history, Reva\u2019s Good Citizens Need Not Fear takes us from paranoia to tenderness and back again, exploring what it is to be an individual amid the roiling forces of history.<\/p>\n

If you enjoyed our Book of the Month September 2025, check out 5 Stunning New Books for September 2025<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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